Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without control or restraint; without effectual opposition.
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Examples
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There were two reasonable semantic jumps, first from “turning on one side” to “tilting from side to side” (2b), and only from there to “moving quickly and unsteadily/uncontrolledly”.
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You intend careen to mean and I quote – “moving fast and uncontrolledly” and say career in the OED means “to gallop, run, or move at full speed.”
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Perhaps this is strictly my own usage, but I think of careering as “moving swiftly and effectively”, and careening as “moving fast and uncontrolledly”.
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The nanobots might replicate uncontrolledly, eating everything in sight, becoming an ever-expanding “gray goo” that takes over the universe.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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The nanobots might replicate uncontrolledly, eating everything in sight, becoming an ever-expanding “gray goo” that takes over the universe.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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The nanobots might replicate uncontrolledly, eating everything in sight, becoming an ever-expanding “gray goo” that takes over the universe.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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The nanobots might replicate uncontrolledly, eating everything in sight, becoming an ever-expanding “gray goo” that takes over the universe.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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So long as patient utilization of services rises uncontrolledly the cost very quickly soars past saving.
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Rose came to her senses a moment later, and, trembling and sobbing uncontrolledly, stumbled through the darkness to the woodpile, and sat down on it.
'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands Eliot H. Robinson
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One of the boys laughs uncontrolledly and then there is an embarrassing silence.
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